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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 awarded to immune system researchers

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release/
94•lode•2h ago

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A_D_E_P_T•1h ago
It's a win for nominative determinism. The name Shimon, in Japanese, directly translates to something like "Determined Scholar."

It's also a fairly weird and old fashioned name. The sort of thing that would have been in style 120 years ago. (Meiji and early Taisho era.) Japanese names today are usually less literal.

matsemann•1h ago
I love how Nobel Prize always have a "popular information" with nice layman description of what was discovered and why it was important. From the sidebar: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-info...
NeutralForest•1h ago
There's usually two pieces, a short one that can be taken as is for the general press and another which goes more in depth at a university level I would say.
haunter•1h ago
There are actually three

The press release https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-releas...

The popular science article https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-info...

And an advanced scientific paper usually written by the members of the commitee https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2025/10/advanced-medicine...

NeutralForest•58m ago
Indeed!
haunter•1h ago
Ah it's the Nobel Prize week! If anyone curious about this week's schedule:

Tuesday: physics. Wednesday: chemistry. Thursday: literature. Friday: peace. Monday: economics.

mongol•1h ago
The peace prize can't come soon enough. Trump is certainly going to throw a fit
haunter•1h ago
Here are the current favorites accross the betting sites, I mean Trump has a decent chance

https://files.catbox.moe/xc1ik1.png

(NATO is a funny one too lol)

phrotoma•1h ago
holy fuck people will bet on pretty much anything I guess huh?
andrewinardeer•7m ago
I bet you they won't.
willvarfar•55m ago
Yes it is sad that the whole Nobel prize coverage will be just a background to a week talking about Trump, whether he wins or not :(
slightwinder•28m ago
I don't think anyone seriously believes he will win. Despite making up all kind of wars and conflicts he claims to have solved, there hasn't been any real peace coming from him, yet. Maybe Gaza turns out to something real, but it's not done yet, and I kinda doubt they decide on these prices on a short whim. And if development in the USA continues like at the moment, I doubt he will be considered next year. It will be just one conflict cancelling out one peace.
garbthetill•10m ago
but what if he turns into the ultimate humanitarian after he wins one? Has the nobel committee considered that?/s

Yeah its weird how he explicitly states he wants a peace prize and then turns around and does very hellish things, rips up Aid programs, impose one sided tariffs without caring about your allies, belittle a president desperately trying to fight for his countries sovereignty, mafia style negotiations for said country minerals without a security guarantee in order to send weapons, trash nato allies repeatedly, taunt allies that you wont honor security guarantees if they dont do x , remove historical names for no good reason from various government objects , alienate out entire class of people with your rhetoric while using a platform thats supposed to be bipartisan, deport & arrest people while bypassing judges as much as you can

matsemann•23m ago
Oh well, the comments will also be filled with complaints about Kissinger, Obama, Teresa, Arafat... and how the prize therefore somehow is worthless. 2020 thread has 30 comments mentioning Trump, 20 comments mentioning Obama.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24728142

Instead of celebrating the winners, some people just want to complain.

boxed•11m ago
> Instead of celebrating the winners

Well.. assuming the winner isn't a war criminal we can celebrate at least :P

alkonaut•4m ago
Is it seven or eight wars he ended this term? I imagine if he could just remember at least two then he’d be a favorite for the prize.
Keyframe•1h ago
obligatory comment about how economics one isn't a Nobel prize.
alkonaut•5m ago
Next Monday also isn’t in this week so it all works out.
slider22•1h ago
In the past here on HN, someone spoke of a set of books that were an incredible resource on the body’s immune response. Does anyone know which books those were? I’m assuming they will get an update to include info on T-reg.
fabian2k•57m ago
These discoveries are old enough to be in the textbooks already.

Not sure what would be good popular science books. There is quite a lot on the immune system in the Alberts (Molecular Biology of the Cell), but that is maybe too much without solid biology background knowledge. The typical textbook is the Janeway (Immunology), but that's certainly too much.

What I liked as an introductory textbook in general was Campbell Biology, but that covers essentially all of Biology. There is a chapter on the immune system as well.

All those books are horribly expensive in the US, and still quite expensive in other countries, though.

jsenn•20m ago
I don’t know the post you’re referring to but I highly recommend How the Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac. It explains the interesting parts without getting bogged down in the details of every signalling pathway, but without dumbing things down too much.

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